Overseas Vietnamese in Nghe An contribute to making their homeland and country famous

Before the meeting, the delegation came to offer flowers at Uncle Ho's statue at Ho Chi Minh Square.

The delegation respectfully offered flowers at the statue of Uncle Ho at Ho Chi Minh Square, Vinh City, Nghe An Province. Photo: Duc Anh

Before his spirit, the delegates expressed their respect and gratitude to President Ho Chi Minh - who always cared for and had special affection for overseas Vietnamese; promised before his spirit to continue to uphold the spirit of national pride and self-respect, while preserving the cultural identity and traditions of the Vietnamese people, always uniting, loving and helping each other, maintaining close relationships with family and homeland to develop more and more civilized and modern.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

Speaking at the meeting, comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee happily informed that in 2017, despite many difficulties, the Party Committee, government, business community and people of the province have promoted the spirit of solidarity and strived to achieve positive results in economy, society, national defense, security and foreign affairs; 27/27 basic targets were achieved and exceeded; growth rate reached 8.25%; budget revenue reached 12,465 billion VND, up 13.3% over the same period in 2016..The fields of trade, tourism, information and communication, transportation, finance and banking developed quite well with an estimated export turnover of 976 million USD, an increase of 14.55%; Foreign affairs, promotion and investment attraction continued to receive attention and were strengthened with many practical and effective innovations.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong spoke at the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh.

Attending the meeting, on behalf of the Central leadership, there was comrade: Nguyen Nhu Thuy - representative of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, leaders of the People's Council, People's Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; representatives of leaders of provincial departments, branches and sectors and delegates who are children of Nghe An people living, studying and working in countries around the world, returning to visit their homeland to celebrate the Lunar New Year 2018.

In 2017, 176 new projects were granted, with a total registered investment capital of nearly 15,000 billion VND; poverty reduction policies were well implemented, social security was ensured, and people's lives were stable and increasingly improved.

To achieve the above achievements, in addition to the solidarity, efforts, striving and high determination of the Party Committee, Government and people of Nghe An province, there are great contributions, especially from our compatriots abroad in terms of intelligence, material and spirit. The Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province affirmed that the Nghe An community abroad is always united, helping each other to improve their lives, preserving the national cultural identity and looking towards their homeland and country. There are more and more overseas Vietnamese, especially the young generation, who are successful in the fields of education, training, science - technology, economy - culture - society, contributing to the glory of their homeland and country.

Many overseas Vietnamese from Nghe An attending the 2018 spring meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

The Party Committee, government and people of Nghe An province always respect and appreciate the contributions of overseas Vietnamese to their homeland, always wish and do their best to support them to stabilize their lives, develop the economy, preserve national cultural identity, integrate into the local community and look back to their homeland.

At the meeting, many delegates representing Nghe An compatriot associations in many countries such as Germany, Russia, Czech Republic, etc. spoke up, expressing their feelings of always turning to their roots and caring for their homeland and country; hoping that Nghe An will continuously rise to the position of a leading province in the region and the whole country.

Special performances imbued with the homeland's identity at the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

At the meeting, delegates also heard the heartfelt opinions of Mr. Dinh Ngoc - Chairman of the Nghe An Association in the Czech Republic; Mr. Hoang Van Thanh - Chairman of the Nghe Tinh Association, Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese Association in Leipzig City, Federal Republic of Germany about the wishes and affirmation of the hearts of overseas Vietnamese always towards their homeland, each member of the Vietnamese community abroad is an ambassador to promote the image of Vietnam, affirming national pride before friends around the world.

Mr. Nguyen Quang Thanh - Vice President of the Association of Vietnamese Solidarity in Ulyanovsk Province, Russian Federation, was moved to send New Year greetings to the delegates and overseas Vietnamese from Nghe An returning to their homeland to celebrate the Lunar New Year 2018. Mr. Nguyen Quang Thanh expressed his pride in the fact that the Association of Vietnamese Solidarity in Ulyanovsk Province has completed meaningful projects in Ulyanovsk Province. In 2018, he hopes and suggests that the friendly cooperation between the two provinces and the two countries will go deeper and deeper, creating conditions to exploit the strengths of both sides to develop together; especially in the fields of education, tourism, etc.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh speaks at the meeting. Photo: Duc Anh

Thanking the delegates representing Nghe An people abroad for their heartfelt opinions towards their homeland, comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh sent warm New Year wishes to the delegates and their families for a successful and lucky new year.

The Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also said that the lives of Nghe An people are still difficult, so there are still a large number of Nghe An people who have to travel abroad to earn a living for themselves and their families. Therefore, the leaders of Nghe An province always worry and want to promote further economic development so that in the future, the younger generations will have to leave their homeland to earn a living less, and stay to do business and develop right in their hometown.

Recently, although Nghe An province has had positive changes, compared to other provinces, regions and countries in the world, it requires more efforts. The Provincial Party Secretary frankly acknowledged that the province has not created the most favorable conditions for overseas Vietnamese to invest and requested overseas Vietnamese associations and the provincial Investment Promotion Center to be more active in attracting, removing obstacles and helping foreign investors and overseas Vietnamese to invest in production and business in Nghe An.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh also suggested and hoped that Nghe An compatriots living far from home regularly grasp information about their homeland through newspapers and radio and actively exchange and give suggestions to provincial leaders on building and developing their homeland.

Nghe An provincial leaders awarded Certificates of Merit to Nghe An overseas compatriot associations with outstanding achievements in foreign affairs activities in 2017. Photo: Duc Anh

On this occasion, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee awarded Certificates of Merit to 3 collectives and 6 individuals with outstanding achievements in foreign affairs activities of Nghe An people abroad.